Troy - A Space Opera Colonization Adventure (Aeon 14: Building New Canaan Book 3) by M. D. Cooper & J.J. Green

Author:M. D. Cooper & J.J. Green [Cooper, M. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2019-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

STELLAR DATE: 05.12.8941 (Adjusted Years)

LOCATION: Heliopolis, Ithaca

REGION: Troy, New Canaan System

Isa flew her aircar high over Heliopolis, skirting the city’s edge. The route wasn’t the most direct from her home on the coast, but she was taking it because she was considering adding the cityscape to her gallery’s installations.

She also admitted to herself that she’d decided to take the indirect course because she was delaying her return to her gallery. She didn’t feel like seeing the destruction the drill had wrought in the full light of day. She’d left the place quickly the previous evening, too tired and dismayed to properly assess the damage after the drill was over. Then Martin and Erin’s argument that morning had put the seal on her unhappiness. Going in to work in order to begin the cleanup was the logical thing to do, yet it was hard to face it all.

Isa’s gaze drifted over the sea of white buildings, which glared almost painfully bright in the morning sunlight. She recorded what she saw as she flew, though half-heartedly.

Up until then, all her art creations had been entirely natural landscapes. She was uncertain whether a cityscape would work, though cities had their beauty too, especially the ones in New Canaan. All the system’s metropolises had been planned for aesthetic as well as utilitarian purposes.

Some, like Heliopolis, had been heavily inspired by cities of ancient Earth. From what Isa understood, there had been places on humanity’s home planet that had developed an intrinsic charm and grace over hundreds of years of building and rebuilding. Other cities in New Canaan were based upon the principles of pleasing design, like the Golden Ratio, and optimum functionality.

Isa frowned as thoughts of Erin and Martin’s fight pushed back into the forefront of her mind. Try as she might, she couldn’t achieve the mental state she needed to do her work. She decided there was no point in flying around aimlessly all morning, vexed by her troubles. She couldn’t fix the antagonism between Erin and Martin; that was their problem. But she could do something about another important area of her life: her business.

She set the aircar on a direct course for the gallery.

As the vehicle set down, the first damage that would require fixing was easy to see. Erin had made a hasty repair to the entrance hatch so that no one would be able to open it, but the jamb and door were bent and fractured. Isa wondered what the Marines had used to bust the thing open. The loud bang that had reverberated through the galley before they stormed the place still remained vivid in her mind.

Isa unlocked the hatch and climbed down to the upper mezzanine. She checked around, but the damage seemed minimal on that floor. Aside from Erin, no one else had been there when the Marines attacked. The troops had passed through, focusing their attention on the first floor, where most of the partygoers had gathered.

The corner of Isa’s lip lifted in a wry grin as she remembered Erin’s plunge from the stairway.

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